aetiology
Last reviewed 01/2018
The causes of diarrhoea in neonates include:
- infection
- a side effect of phototherapy
- a result of a variation in the maternal diet or an effect of the mother taking laxatives
- antibiotics
- necrotising enterocolitis
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